I walked past one of my neighbors’ door this evening. On the doorstop was a catalog from the Running Room. I find this amusing because he is the last person I can think of that will do exercise. I don’t know him personally, but he looks like the kind of person who will always take the elevator to go up one floor. Ah the joy of stereotyping.
This morning I was depressed. Really depressed. I think I was too tired yesterday to realized I had been rejected by women once again. So it kicked in this morning leaving me cranky and irritable over my mortality and the thought of dying alone. I grew out of it by late afternoon.
It is my father’s birthday today. I’ll be honest that I don’t know how old he is. If I knew I would probably get depressed. And think more about mortality. Let’s not go there.
Improv class was good today. I did a number of scenes, with some that I’m actually not embarrassed about. The instructor complemented me on one skill. I’m always realistic. When I was taking a pizza order, I didn’t try and make it weird, but just a double pepperoni, extra cheese and green pepper. This is odd because he pointed out previously, two weeks ago, that I was doing things that were not realistic. I guess I’m progressing as an improviser.
Tomorrow my work is having a social event. We get off of work early so we can go bowling. I don’t really know the point of the social events, but I’m not going to complain. I haven’t bowled in a long time. Technically, I should be running tomorrow, but this will give me an opportunity to give my knee a rest.
At work this morning I was investigating trying to get a compiler to do an automated task. It fought me tooth and nail, and in the end it won. Metrowerks has gotten really complacent with their product. They believe they have a monopoly (and to a certain extent they do) and they have got a good scam going. Every time the Mac OS is updated, you need to get a new version of the compiler from Metrowerks. This is not a free upgrade, but a rather expensive one. Since they practically have a guaranteed income, without significant work, there seems to be no motivation to make the compiler better. Just a bit more Applescript support is all I’m asking for.